Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026 – Commissions

Now in our fourth collaboration with the legendary Citemor Festival, we invited a diverse and expansive group of artists who all brought different and new approaches to critical writing, to the Live Art Writers Network project.

Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto accompanied the performances in the first two weeks of the festival, including works by Bruno Ambrósio, Lígia Soares, Amália Fernández, Francisco Camacho and Kotomi Nishiwaki. For this, Dori focused his approach on the form of the interview with artists and people who have historically taken part in the festival as a way to critically reflect on the works. At the same time, Paulo experimented with poetry, word play and collage with found objects.

For the final two weeks, artists Keissy Carvelli, Ángela López Ramos & Álvaro Albala were in residency for the first time at the festival, and accompanied works by Olga Mesa, Thiago Granato, Rosa Romero, Fernando Renrijo and Shanti Vera. Writer and musician Keissy Carvelli explored her explosive and reactive poetry as a way to reflect on the works and on the festival itself, in a quasi-anarchic approach to writing, whereas Ángela and Álvaro worked as a duo to explore writing as a way to create arquival images which function as a writing illustration of offerings to the artists.

Below are the various publications, all of them in their original languages: Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalán.

COMMISSIONS

#1 Conversa à espreguiçadeira com Xavi, por Dori Nigro LINK

#2 Conversa com Bruno, por Dori Nigro LINK

#3 Conversa com Neiva, por Dori Nigro LINK

#4 Conversa com Carlota Lagido, por Dori Nigro LINK

#5 Palavra Imagem Nada, Emerging Still. por Paulo Pinto LINK

#6 Palavra Imagem Nada, En Construcción #2. por Paulo Pinto LINK

#7 Primeiro Movimento, por Keissy Carvelli LINK

#8 flertes frames provocações a propósito de Não se vê, não se guarda, de Tiago Granato, por Keissy Carvelli LINK

#9 Conversa com Lígia, por Dori Nigro LINK

#10 Un hombre yace en el suelo de un escenario, por Ángela López Ramos & Álvaro Albaladejo LINK

#11 entrei no baile do descompasso de Rosa, por Keissy Carvelli LINK

#12 Numa monumental successão de ruínas um manifesto a propósito de Estudios para un ecce homo de Shanti Vera e Fernando Renjifo, por Keissy Carvelli LINK

Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026 is a collaboration between performingborders, Citemor and ARA – Associação Reflexo Azul.

Dori Nigro is a creator, performer, art educator and researcher who studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the College of Arts at the University of Coimbra. Since 2007, he has been dedicated to artistic practices that bridge different disciplines. He holds a PhD, a master’s degree and a specialisation in the fields of contemporary art, artistic practices and art education; as well as a degree in pedagogy and a bachelor’s degree in media studies and photography. He lives and works between Portugal and Brazil, facilitating collaborative activities with artists and local communities. Together with Paulo Pinto, she runs LARoyé, a home and studio dedicated to sharing emotional, creative and ancestral experiences, carrying out research and creative work in the fields of artistic practice, art and education, and art therapy. She is a member of the União Negra das Artes (UNA) and a visiting assistant lecturer at the University of Porto.

Keissy Carvelli is a Brazilian cultural mediator, researcher and artist. Born in the interior of São Paulo, she has spent much of her professional and academic career in Paraná, the state of São Paulo and Portugal. She currently lives in Coimbra, where she develops most of her creative work and public performances, standing out on the local cultural scene for her ability to blend the theoretical rigour of academic research with the irreverence of performance and music.

Ángela López Ramos (Córdoba, 1984) holds a degree in Dramatic Arts, specialising in Set Design (ESAD, Seville); she subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Culture: Literature, Artistic Institutions and Cultural Communication (UCM, Madrid). Her work brings together various disciplines linked to contemporary performance, ranging from the creation of stage productions and the conception of exhibition contexts to the design of spaces and lighting. She was a member of the Vértebro collective from 2007 to 2024, presenting her work at the Condeduque Centre for Contemporary Culture (Madrid), the Sâlmon Festival (Barcelona) and Reims Scènes d’Europe (France), amongst others. Together with Vértebro, she curated ‘Beautiful Movers’ (Córdoba), a miraculous gathering for the Andalusian performing arts scene that has featured artists such as Rodrigo García, El Conde de Torrefiel and Societat Doctor Alonso. She has worked as a set designer with the choreographer Quim Bigas, the trapero artist Dellafuente and the choreographer Natalia Jiménez. She has also provided lighting design for Helena Martos’s work and carried out technical production duties at the 2020 Cumplicidades Festival (Lisbon). She is currently collaborating with visual artist Álvaro Albaladejo on the creation of spaces and situations in which they explore the relationship between perception and its internal mechanisms, triggering a whole range of emotional responses. Furthermore, in 2026 she was part of Archivo al Corro, a research project curated by Natalia Jiménez and Irene Cantero, focusing on the documentation and archiving of artistic processes. She combines her professional work in performance and design with teaching at the Higher School of Dramatic Art in Córdoba.